It’s interesting how cultural movements can percolate down from the adult sphere into children’s entertainment. Take psychedelia: it had its heyday circa 1967/1968, but a decade later its aftershocks were still being felt in a Cosgrove Hall cartoon that captivated me as a kid.
Running from 1977-1979, each of ’s 33 episodes (endlessly repeated in the ’80s) saw the titular lad shining a beam onto his bedroom floor, opening a portal to a strange world called Cuckoo Land, reached by sliding down a brightly-coloured helter skelter. Accompanying him on his trips was Wordsworth, a bobble-hatted Old English Sheepdog who spoke like one of The Wurzels.
